Europe keeps hitting clean energy milestones
May 18, 2016, 4:51 pm By Kate Yoder
May has been a good month for clean energy in Europe. Coal plants have faltered and wind farms are…Here’s where the science on GMOs stands
May 18, 2016, 3:46 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The GMO debate is a tar pit of the mind: Partisans repeat the same talking points for decades on…Trump Jr. wants his dad to put him in charge of federal parks and lands
May 18, 2016, 3:16 pm By Katie Herzog
Donald Trump is butting heads with the GOP establishment over the issue of federal lands. Republican…America’s hoarding a huge stash of uneaten cheese
May 18, 2016, 5:00 am By Kate Yoder
Stop everything: The U.S. has been hoarding a massive stash of uneaten cheese weighing in at…Completely unsurprisingly, coal dust kills coral, too
May 18, 2016, 4:44 am By Clayton Aldern
To the shock of no one, it turns out that coal dust is pretty bad for just about everything.…Not paying enough rent? New startup Rentberry could change that
May 18, 2016, 3:50 am By Katie Herzog
As if life for renters in big cities weren’t hellish enough, a new Bay Area startup promises to…Trump wants to start from scratch on the Paris climate deal
May 17, 2016, 8:11 pm By Rebecca Leber
Imagine for a second how tough it is to get 187 nations to agree on anything. The United Nations…Massachusetts kids latest to nab win in lawsuit for climate action
May 17, 2016, 7:31 pm By Clayton Aldern
Leaving future generations to fend for themselves in a climate-changed world isn’t the most…No human alive has seen 7 months this hot before
May 17, 2016, 6:31 pm By Phil Plait
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Coal workers get screwed, their bosses get bonuses
May 17, 2016, 4:11 pm By Melissa Cronin
A report released Tuesday by the consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen documents how…8,000 oil workers evacuated from Fort McMurray fire. Again.
May 17, 2016, 3:25 pm By Xian Chiang-Waren
Two weeks after it began, the Fort McMurray wildfire is continuing to burn out of control. On…Tesla’s labor controversy shows that a green job isn’t always a good job
May 17, 2016, 3:19 pm By Heather Smith
Last spring, a worker installing pipes in the roof of a Tesla Motors shop in Fremont, Calif.,…North Carolina’s anti-trans governor is dangerously cozy with major polluter
May 17, 2016, 1:00 pm By Katie Herzog
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) has been in the news lately thanks to HB2, a bill he signed into…Here’s a sign that Kentucky’s politics might finally be shifting away from coal
May 17, 2016, 12:20 pm By Rebecca Leber
“There is no red Kentucky or blue Kentucky. There is only charcoal black,” James Higdon wrote in…On a scale of 1 to 10, Fort McMurray’s air pollution is a 38
May 17, 2016, 5:00 am By Xian Chiang-Waren
Nearly two weeks after a wildfire first tore through Fort McMurray, the Canadian oil town’s air…Is it time to give up on the 350 ppm goal? We’re now consistently above 400.
8:39pm By Andrea Thompson
Just three years ago this month, the carbon dioxide monitoring station atop Hawaii’s Mauna Loa…Climate deniers smart enough not to bet against Bill Nye
7:51pm By Kate Yoder
No one’s surprised that last month was the hottest April on record. And, it turns out, not even…Check out these photos of bad-ass climate activists around the world
2:53pm By Katie Herzog
Over the weekend, tens of thousands of activists in 13 countries on six continents protested…Can this gorgeous short film lure fly fishermen into climate activism?
1:57pm By Heather Smith
In my years writing about the environment, I have witnessed attempts to push conservatives,…What’s the best non-toxic alternative to bleach?
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Q. Dear Umbra, I was just chopping up a chicken and as I was cleaning, I remembered something I saw…
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